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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
👓 How to Import Your GoodReads List Into WordPress, for free | Glenn Dixon
Glenn Dixon (glenn.thedixons.net)Here are the steps I took in order to get all of my GoodReads books/reviews over into my IndieWeb-ified Wordpress: Prerequisites: A GoodReads account with a decent amount of books reviewed and/or starred A self-hosted WordPress site Twenty Seventeen theme (could work with others) Advanced Custom Fie...
👓 Honda Kick ‘N Go Scooter (GOGO) | Honda Roots
Walking into a Honda dealership during the 70’s was a glorious time for families and parents, but for kids it wasn’t the most ideal of places to be. Honda Motor Company wanted to capitalize the possibilities of selling to youngsters and a toy-line segment that seemed void amongst what current dealerships offered. Soon Honda Introduced the Honda Kick ‘N Go or Honda Roller-Through GOGO in Japan. The idea for the scooter came from an “Idea” contest held by Honda and it’s employees internally. Akuto, a subsidiary of Honda helped develop the Kick ‘N Go for it’s release.
👓 MoviePass outage caused by company temporarily running out of cash | Business Insider
Following a service interruption of MoviePass on Thursday, its parent company, Helios and Matheson, borrowed $5 million to bring the service back online.
🎧 Micro Monday Extra: @verso at Chicago-O’Hare airport, talking about Macstock | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogIn this special extra edition of the Micro Monday Microcast, Kelly Guimont and Jean have enough time before their plane home to Portland to talk about the fantastic experience they had at the 2018 Macstock Expo and Conference, and to start making plans for the 2019 event.
🎧 Episode 17: @eli | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogEli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid Micro.blogger.
Eli’s wiki is truly a hidden gem.
🎧 Episode 16: @vanessa | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogVanessa Hamshere is a musician, a crafter, a photographer, and one of the “fountain pens, paper, and planners gang.” We talk about how online communities evolve and thrive, and how a good mix of technical expertise and interests helps everyone.
It’s nice to have a group of people from across the world with different interests. I love random conversations.
Vanessa gives Colin Walker and I an overly kind little shout out during the episode. I suspect she either knows more than she lets on or she’s got a ton of tenacity, because she has a very lovely site. Lately I noticed that she’s even begun delving into microsub clients and Indiepaper, which I have barely begun to scratch the surface of, so perhaps I’ll have to pick her brain a bit in return.
🎧 Episode 14: @jw | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogJim Withington, joins us on Micro Monday. Jim is currently a web developer in Portland who describes himself as someone who likes getting excited about things and blogging about them. We talk about the XOXO Conference in Portland, about the unexpected delight of photoblogging with Micro.blog, and whether Micro.dog should be a thing.
🎧 Episode 15: @mnmltek | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogThis week, Jean interviews the host of the the mnmltek microcast, Chris Powell.
Chris’s passion is sharing tech knowledge and other help for humans. In addition to the microcast, Chris blogs, podcasts, and writes a newsletter. “If you’re not sharing your thoughts, opinions, or what’s inside of you, you need to know that your voice matters.”
I’ll have to take a look at Chris‘ podcast. I wonder if he’s been to any of the Bellingham Homebrew Website Club meetups or perhaps the IWC in 2017?
I’m also interested to hear more about his technology career in higher education. Perhaps he might be interested in joining some of us in IndieWeb for Education?
🎧 This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People | TWiT.TV
Privacy Spats and Flying CarsTips and Picks
- Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
- Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
- Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
- Larry Page's flying car takes off
- Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
- Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
- WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
- Facebook still wants your nude pictures
- Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
- Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
- Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app
👓 Tronc Exec Tells Daily News Staff to Their Faces: We Have No Strategy | The Daily Beast
A company exec and the paper’s newly installed top editor told employees Tuesday that they have no actual strategy, prompting audible dismay from the skeletal staff.
Not having a strategy when you’re on the border of collapse is a poor way to run a business.
👓 Selfies at Funerals | The Atlantic
A new Tumblr compiles self-portraits taken at funerals and shared with the world. Here are a few, interspersed with more traditional efforts at celebrating life and publicly reflecting on mortality.
An interesting and excellent follow-on from the prior story I read. Somehow the older mores of photographing and arranging the dead seem at least connected to those we’ve lost whereas some of these funeral selfies or so-called “caskies” they don’t seem to be mourning much of anything except the minute amounts of fame they may be losing.
👓 Pictures of Death: Postmortem Photography | The Atlantic
When photography was new, it was often used to preserve corpses via their images. An Object Lesson
Fascinating to read about some of the cultural shifts and norms in our society over the past century or so.
👓 Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it | Aeon
The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free and without subscription, which is a real impediment to resolving major problems, such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
I agree with much of what he’s saying here, but it’s so dense and talks around the issue so much that it’s simply just another diatribe against the system. While there is a prescriptive portion, we’re going to need a whole lot more in terms of a list of what individuals and institutions should be doing.
So yes, more of the how to fix it piece please.
👓 How Is This Shit Legal | The Concourse
This past spring, Michael Ferro resigned as chairman of publicly traded media-looting hell-company Tronc, Inc., just ahead of the publication of sexual harassment allegations against him. As a parting gift, Tronc paid him $15 million, voluntarily bundling up the total value of a three-year consulting contract into one lump payment expensed against the company’s earnings and putting itself $14.8 million in the red for the first quarter. Today, Tronc gutted the New York Daily News, laying off at least half of its editorial staff to cut costs. In a society not crippled and driven completely insane by capitalism, motherfuckers would go to prison for this.
I don’t read The Concourse often, but this seems awfully ranty for something that I suspect is otherwise meant to be more tame journalism. Perhaps I missed the “opinion” tag? But, then again, it’s part of the Gawker family…